About Delores
Delores Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 47 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. She also supports concerns around relationships, self-esteem, addictions, ADHD, and workplace issues.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She uses insight-oriented conversation to help people notice how choices affect goals. Sessions aim to help clients make practical changes at a pace that fits them.
Background and approach
Delores blends practical tools with reflective work. She offers behavior-focused strategies and problem-solving plans for day-to-day struggles. She also brings techniques that build motivation and clearer decision-making for career and personal transitions.
Communication and respect guide her work. People are encouraged to speak openly without judgment, and the therapist listens with attention to each person’s priorities. The goal is increased clarity about what to try next, not pressure to move faster than feels right.
Her background includes coaching-style support for life changes and work-life balance. That complements clinical strategies for mood, grief, and relationship strain. Delores aims to help people find manageable steps toward the life they want.
Sessions are offered in English from Virginia. Over nearly five decades of practice she has kept a practical focus - helping people solve problems, cope with losses, and rebuild routines after disruption.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters most, and take small actions toward those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior, trying out different responses, and using practical exercises to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and preferences, then suggest approaches that fit. Together they will adapt methods over time to match what is helpful for the individual.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can fit into a brief break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins, note-taking between sessions, and ongoing problem-solving. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the same therapeutic tools a therapist would use in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 47 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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